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Off on the Wrong Foot: the Art of Album Sequencing
A rollicking Popdose Roundtable that explains why you've been listening to Rumours in the wrong order, among other things
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The Very Guest Of…Sting
If you've not been following every breath he takes, you're missing a lot of great guest appearances by the man they call Sting
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Popdose Flashback ’91: Dire Straits, “On Every Street”
I knocked around the fringes of academia for years, but it’s just as well that I never became a teacher — because there’s nothing I find more irritating than a C+ paper from an
Read More »Popdose Roundtable: Penultimate Songs
We're such geeks that we even think about albums with great second-to-last songs
Read More »Soundtrack Saturday: “SpaceCamp”
In honor of the final Space Shuttle launch, Kelly the space nerd reminisces about the Shuttle program and revisits a film that is a sentimental favorite, 1986's SpaceCampRead More »
Friday Night Videos!: The Hits of 1985
If you’re holding your breath for the day MTV starts playing music videos, let it go. It’s never going to happen, not while the dreaded Snooki-beast is running around, trying to mount Eric Cartman.
Read More »Bottom Feeders: The Rock End of the ’80s, Part 14
It’s the last week for the letter D, as we take a look at more tracks that hit the Rock charts but failed to cross over to the Billboard Hot 100. Dire Straits “Expresso
Read More »50Prog50: The Best Prog Albums, Part One
We love to mock prog rock, but Dw. Dunphy has made a list of 50 prog albums that deserve to be in your collection. Here's the first installment
Read More »CD Review: Various Artists, “Live at Knebworth”
Live albums, more than any other, date themselves immediately, and not merely because the date is plastered all over the recording. Multiple artists on a roster are even more susceptible. If the choices of
Read More »Mix Six: “Then and Now”
In his latest Mix Six, Ted Asregadoo contrasts bands' debuts with songs from their most recent albums, including Weezer, Lone Justice, and New Order
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